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All you need is to listen

If you considered supporting ONE by sending money, think again. Perhaps there is more you can do. It's about caring for issues and being heard. About compassion and learning from each other. You can make the Third World part of your life. The resources for this are already there and they don't cost much more than your participation. Unfiltered by commercially sponsored media, you can read and learn first hand about what is actually going on.

The Global Voices project is such an attempt. Its publishers are using open-source tools and the power of the webs greatest social phenomenon, blogs, to create a platform for voices from all over the world, not only from the western hemisphere:

The primary mission of Global Voices is twofold: 1) To call attention to the most interesting conversations and perspectives emerging from citizens' media around the world by linking to text, audio, and video blogs and other forms of grassroots citizens' media being produced by people around the world; 2) To facilitate the emergence of new citizens' voices through training, online tutorials, and publicizing the ways in which open-source and free tools can be used safely by people around the world to express themselves.